Lagos, a city of some 20 million people, has been the country’s main hotspot and the daily increase in recorded cases has doubled in the past few days.
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Heath officials in the Democratic Republic of Congo have already warned that COVID-19 could spread exponentially through the country in the first two weeks of May.
The unrests in the last two weeks commenced with a riot in the maximum prison in Freetown, which claimed 12 lives. Then there were riots in at least two other districts, amidst conflicting reports about the number of deaths. President Bio blamed opposition APC for the unrest.
Anselme Amoussou, general secretary of one of the country’s largest labour organisation, said testing remained “insufficient”.
Former Communications Minister, Bereket Simon was found guilty on two counts, of corruption and mismanagement of the institution, court spokesman, Tazebachew Tassie said.
While Kiir and Machar managed to name a cabinet in March under the new accord, they have yet to strike a deal on who can appoint governors to the states.
Mauritania has been one of the countries in the region least affected by the novel coronavirus, having registered just eight cases to date, and one fatality, among a population of four million people.
Guinea’s politics have been tense for months, with a dispute over the constitution sometimes flaring up into violent protests in which dozens of people have been killed.
The amendments, published Thursday in the official gazette after their approval by parliament, give Sisi and security agencies “additional sweeping powers”, according to Human Rights Watch.
Similar scenes have also played out across East Africa as floods and landslides have killed nearly 200 people in Kenya in the past month, while Uganda’s Lake Victoria has overflown, submerging houses, a hospital and bridges and displacing thousands.